Issues filing for Florida unemployment during the coronavirus pandemic
By Samone Blair Medill Reports Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) issued a statement Monday calling for the U.S. Department of Labor Investigator General to investigate the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity’s failure to implement unemployment benefits that were expanded by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020, citing […]
Lessons Learned from COVID-19
By Jenny Ly Medill Reports Back in beginning of 2020 when coronavirus first hit mainland China in the city of Wuhan, Chinese cities were running out of face masks. The shortage eventually hit Chicago’s very own Chinatown, thousands of miles away, as local pharmacies were experiencing the same problem. Families were rushing to buy face […]
Hundreds pack Lincoln Square for peaceful BLM protest
By Yousef Nasser Medill Reports On Sunday, hundreds of people packed Lincoln Square to protest police brutality against unarmed black men and women. Photo at top: A female protester holds a sign that says “Black Lives Matter” as she rides past a crowd of protesters in Lincoln Square. (Yousef Nasser/MEDILL)
Michigan high school students offer free virtual tutoring amid COVID-19 pandemic
By Bre’onna Richardson Medill Reports High school students from International Academy in Bloomfield, Michigan are offering free online tutoring and reading programs so that no student gets left behind. Their ultimate goal is to solve educational inequality. You can visit the group’s website here. You can also visit their Instagram page at @helpinghandssfs. Photo at […]
Maine police officer, Brunswick resident speak on local demonstrations
By Dave Peck Medill Reports The state of Maine is almost 95% white. The town of Brunswick is roughly 90% white. But in the wake of George Floyd, protests have appeared around the country, regardless of demographic. This week, I spoke with Felix Abongo, a participant at last week’s protest, as well as a local […]
Shifting gears from a race car driver to startup founder
By Annie Lin Medill Reports When Daniel Woodroof, 24, went go-karting with his dad one weekend, he never expected it would lead to a professional racing career. Neither did he expect to shift gears. When life took him down a different route, he co-founded Pandan Social, a digital marketing agency in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Update: Surviving the Parkland school shooting
By Nicole Girten Medill Reports He shot into her classroom first. Ninth grade English teacher Dara Hass sat at her desk in the corner of her classroom, positioned diagonal to the door of room 1216. While her honor students sequestered themselves in small groups to work on a writing assignment as Hass looked over that […]
Young activists find their voice in Manassas protest
By Yousef Nasser Medill Reports On Monday, Virginians marched to the General District Court in Manassas to protest the killing of unarmed black men and women by police officers. By the end of the protest, chants turned to cheers, as a handful of young protesters were invited to sit down with the police sheriff to […]
A world without sports
By Tony Garcia, Yousef Nasser, Josh Skinner and Allegra Zamore Medill Reports In a matter of hours, the sports world changed. This half-hour documentary recounts those harrowing days leading up to the cancellation of the NCAA Basketball Tournament and how COVID-19 changed the sports landscape as we know it. From Texas to Germany, from collegiate […]
Fight for justice: Stories from across America
By Jenny Ly Medill Reports In this June 1-7 special report, Fight for Justice: Stories from across America, Medill Reports looks at how the death of Minnesota resident George Floyd on Memorial Day is sparking social change across the country. It’s a new-age of protesting during the COVID-19 era and an image for the history […]